U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled on October 9, 2026, that the Justice Department acted unlawfully when it demanded unredacted voter rolls from nearly all 50 states and cross-checked them against the SAVE...
The Supreme Court on September 25, 2026 sided 6-3 with the administration, pausing an order that had blocked DHS's overhauled SAVE database from checking state voter rolls for citizenship. SAVE, built to verify benefits...
On September 4, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined, 2-1, to lift a lower-court order barring the government from using the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic...
Three former officials told The Washington Post that fraud detection officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have been reassigned to screen state voter data for noncitizens who registered to vote, and are...
Attorney General Todd Blanche said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Aug. 16 that it is "absolutely" a possibility the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to review the cases it has lost seeking states'...
A federal appeals court on Friday, Aug. 14 denied the Justice Department's petition for rehearing before the full Sixth Circuit in its effort to obtain Michigan's complete, unredacted qualified voter file, which lists...
The New York Times reported on Aug. 10, 2026 that DHS is intensively pursuing deportation of noncitizens on voter rolls, including people who say they registered inadvertently at motor vehicle agencies and never voted...
U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless of Illinois’ Central District rejected the Justice Department’s suit seeking full access to the state’s voter registration database, which covers more than 8 million residents. In a...
The Justice Department on July 21, 2026 asked New Jersey to provide the identities of about 6,600 noncitizens it said had been mistakenly added to the state's voter rolls, and said it is considering criminal prosecutions...
On July 17, 2026, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told top election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that they could face criminal charges if they do not run their voter rolls through...